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    Deprivation refers the disruption of attachment that has already been made. Bowlby has conducted a case study of little John whose mother was admitted to the hospital and he showed effect of short term deprivation. He found that he had gone through 3 stages which he called the PDD sequence (Protest‚ Despair and Detachment). At first when he was separated from his mother‚ he showed signs of protest and he was crying‚ shouting and shows signs of desperate attempts to get his mother to return. But after

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    Ethology was first applied to research on children in the 1960s. It has become more influential in recent years and is concerned with the adaptive‚ or survival‚ value of behavior and its evolutionary history (Hinde‚ 1989). The origins of ethology can be traced to the work of Darwin. Its modern foundations were founded by two European zoologists‚ Lorenz and Tinbergen (Dewsbury‚ 1992). Watching the behaviors of animal species in their natural habitats‚ Lorenz and Tinbergen observed behavioral patterns

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    This essay will strive look at what makes up the foundations of Bowlby’s theory‚ as well as looking to consider in more detail how this theory has been developed and expanded by other psychology researchers such as Ainsworth and Main and Goldwyn. Bowlby is a major leading figure in the investigation of parent/child relationships and the development of attachment theory. The interest for him in taking up research in this field was triggered by becoming aware of ethological research surrounding animal

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    Institutional Care and its Effects Bowlby studied institutional care and its effects in the 1930s and 1940s. He studied children being brought up in orphanages and residential nurseries which lacked maternal care. Bowlby believed that the relationship between child and mother during the first 5 years of a child’s life‚ is at its most crucial to socialisation for which he called the critical period. He claimed that if no attachment was formed (privation) or there was a disruption between the attachment

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    A. The message the authors‚ Bowlby and Anisworth‚ are trying to relate are‚ the impacts of stress on the biology body and minds‚ that disrupts the relationships on children’s social and emotional development. Healthy relationship is critical to children’s prosocial development‚ and attachment theory explains how the parent-child bond typically provides the building blocks for all future relationships by helping children master skills they will need to engage with others in positive and productive

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    Discuss Bowlby’s work on attachment. Refer to the work of at least one other researcher in your answer. (12 marks) Attachment theory was developed in the 1950’s by psychoanalyst John Bowlby‚ who defined attachment as a ‘lasting psychological connectedness between human beings’. Whilst working with James Robertson in 1952‚ he observed that children experienced intense distress when separated from their mothers and if fed by other caregivers‚ the child’s anxiety did not diminish. This led to his theories

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    mother through the lens of John Bowlby’s theory of attachment and Margaret Mahler’s Theory of Separation-Individuation. Bowlby’s theory of attachment suggests that children instinctually form attachments with others to help them survive. Overtime children learn to depend on the caregiver and recognize that they will be there to comfort them and keep them safe. Attachment behaviors develop to protect against situations that threaten the closeness of those attachments. Bowlby suggested that infants and

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    learning theory and evolutionary perspective (Bowlby). Discuss one explanation of attachment (8 marks) Bowlby’s attachment theory states that attachment is adaptive and innate (genetic). Infants elicit care giving and become attached to those individuals who respond sensitively to their signals (social releasers). The relationship with the primary caregiver (monotropy) acts like a template for future adult relationships through the internal working model. Bowlby stated that infants are born with innate

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    Rigney Intro to Psychology- TR 1:30- 2:45 John Bowlby Edward John Moston Bowlby was born February 26‚ 1907. He was a british psychologist‚ psychiatrist‚ and psychoanalyst‚ notable for his interest in child development with the attachment theory. Bowlby was born in London to an upper middle class family. He was the fourth of six children and was raised by a nanny. His father Sir Anthony Alfred Bowlby was a surgeon to the King’s Household. Bowlby only saw his mother for one hour after teatime

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    introduction to one of his many books‚ John Bowlby quotes Graham Greene; ‘Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term may just as well be thirteen years.’ It is quite clear that John’s childhood was not a happy one. He experienced many years of separation from family and it can be connected as to why he developed the theory of attachment. Edward John Mostyn Bowlby‚ known as John Bowlby‚ was born in 1907 in London as the fourth

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